blacksportsonline.com - 1/13/2009
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An NBA season is a long season. With eighty-two games, and when you're a team of championship caliber, something's you typically expect to play at least sixteen more...if you're lucky. Last year, the Celtics and Lakers got to that level, and it wasn't because one player carried them ...
Lakers Must Reads: 1/3/09
laballtalk.com 1/4/2009 — There are a few articles that all Lakers fans should be required to read. If you are a true fan, then you must be on top of it all. Be a part of the other Lakers sites and not just this one. Read analysis from all the different writers/bloggers and leave comments on every page [...]
What I Took Away From Christmas
forumblueandgold.com 12/29/2008 —
1. A really nice jacket from my brother. Everyone should have a gay brother, it ensures that one truly cool and stylish piece of clothing will be given you each year.
2. The Lakers were the tougher team, the grittier team. They out hustled and ...
Kobe & The Lakers Still Own The West
sportsloungeblog.com 12/24/2008 — The Lakers have played uninspired ball lately, but just in time for Christmas, Kobe Bryant and the defending Western Conference champions put on a show just to remind everyone how good they can play when they want to. Just ask the Hornets who were ...
How to Beat the Lakers
3shadesofblue.com 12/26/2008 — It really isn't that difficult to be the Lakers this season. Sure they have a dominating interior game, some solid play on the perimeter and their bench is strong but it isn't that difficult to beat the Lakers if you can do one thing: get their starting bigs in foul trouble
Lakers Show Why They Are Pretenders Against The New Orleans Hornets
bleacherreport.com 1/8/2009 — The Los Angeles Lakers came into last night's game against the New Orleans Hornets looking to make a statement that they are now the team to beat it in the NBA due to the Boston Celtics slumping, but the Lakers couldn't take advantage of that and ...
A Category 5: Here's why the Lakers may be the greatest team ever
bucksdiary.blogspot.com 11/11/2008 — Should we save everyone the time and the aggravation and just have Kobe pose kissing the O'Brien Trophy retro Jordan style right now? Because barring injury or stupid personnel maneuver (neither of which can be discounted), there is next to no way ...
Contending on New Years Day
dberri.wordpress.com 1/2/2009 — Last June I picked the Boston Celtics to defeat the LA Lakers in the 2008 NBA Finals. Even as that happened, though, I warned that the Lakers would probably win in 2009. In fact, last October I argued the Lakers might be the team to beat beyond ...
Lakers Getting Defensive
ballerblogger.com 11/12/2008 — I meant to get to this earlier, but Kevin Pelton put together a great scouting report of LA’s new defensive scheme at Basketball Prospectus . I watched Los Angeles’ home opener against Portland and noticed the Lakers were overloading the ...
About Last Night….
forumblueandgold.com 12/10/2008 — ….Or, alternately titled, Sexual Perversity in Sacramento
I don’t think anybody who watched part of all of the last five Lakers games that would say this team is playing well right now. It’s still winning games because of the talent level, ...
Lakers 105, Rockets 100 —
NYT > Pro Basketball 1/14/2009
HOUSTON (AP) -- Kobe Bryant sank a 3-pointer with 27 seconds left and scored 33 points, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the undermanned Houston Rockets 105-100 on Tuesday night. >